1st Grade Thoughts

Includes a "Bad Seed" craft with different writing components you can use! The writing prompts that come with this craftivity on full length primary lined paper: • Summary of “The Bad Seed” • How can you be a bad seed and a good seed? • Be a good seed • How to be a good seed *NEW: The bad seed sequencing order of events with spaces. I’ve also included an inside of the seed template if you want to tie this craftivity into character traits, or how to be a good seed and a bad seed. Inside th

This is such a great resource to use with the book “Stand in my Shoes” By Bob Sornson. As a school, we take turns reading this book with our class and then have each student make a shoe that they decorate, cut and put in the hallway. At the end of the week, there are shoes lined on the walls in the hallway, and students TRULY are treating each other with empathy. You can either have students decorate the outside of the shoe of their choice (there are 3 options) with images that describe them,

4 different styles of the 5 finger rule for choosing a "Just Right" book! Clipart: -Mountains -Stacked books -Open book -Cactus/ Succulent Mix and match for students or use a consistent set! I find that this is a great way to reinforce choosing the right books. I have students color them the first week of school and put their names on the back, and then we keep them in their book boxes once they get laminated! When I do DRA testing, they bring their bookmarks and on the back I date and write

This is a fun craftivity to do with your class around the book "Thelma the Unicorn", written by Aaron Blabey. It comes with a few writing extensions, along with Thelma's head craft! The writing prompts that come with this craftivity are: • Summary of “Thelma the Unicorn” • Sequencing of “Thelma the Unicorn” • “I am unique because”.. with primary lines and tracing words. • “The best part about being me is”.. with primary lines and tracing words.

Voice Level Worksheets to match your school/classroom voice level rules and expectations, OR to match the language used in "Decibella and her 6-Inch voice" by Julia Cook. There are 3 different options with slightly different terms for each voice level. Students can either write, or draw inside the boxes to illustrate or summarize each voice level. I find this is a great review for the beginning of the school year, or as a booster when kids come back from breaks!

How many rubber bands will it take to make a pumpkin explode?! Every student loves a hands on activity where vegetables explode with just the use of rubber bands. You can access videos online of different (older students) doing this experiment in their classroom while investigating the pumpkins diameter, circumference, etc. But for elementary, we are just going to look at the basic principles of force and pressure on an object. There are 6 varied worksheets in this file that you can use to a

A variety of differentiated fluency passages on amazing women in history! Each notable woman has a fluency passage with three leveled readers (A=approaching, O=On grade level and B=Beyond), a comprehension question response page, and 2 graphic organizers. Word searches have been added for each woman as an extension for early finishers. Craftivity extension is available for some woman with a crown craft! Notable Woman include: 1. Audrey Hepburn 2. Julia Child 3. Jane Goodall 4. Anne Frank 5.

Get in the holiday spirit with a fun light bulb name craft activity! Its easy, and can be modified to accommodate all Elementary grade levels. Includes recommended step-by-step directions, and templates for Christmas lights.

Black and white photo release form for the classroom! Great for primary grades so they have the possibility of coloring! :) Please enjoy this freebie as an example of my work!

This is a fun way to review blends and digraphs as a class in December! There are 10 bingo boards, with varying blends and digraphs on them. There is a master list of Christmas words to read aloud, and word cards that have correlating letters to the bingo board digraph/blend. This product is B&W and can be printed off and used as a consumable, or laminated for repeated use throughout the year. Row B= R letter blends Row I= S letter blends Row N= Ghost letter digraphs Row G= L blends Row O=

There are two different activities you can use with this resource! The first one is the classic fun decorated mitten with a snowflake cut out. Very fun to do in the winter months, especially if you are wanting some snow art! The second one is the same mitten art activity where students can decorate their mitten and then build a geometrical snowflake on their mitten with white pattern block pieces. After this, they write about what pattern block pieces they used to make their snowflake. This

This is a super fun activity to do with your students after reading “Room on the Broom” by Julia Donaldson. It requires student pictures to do the craft, but all other aspects just require printing! :) Could be used as a door decoration, or for a fun Halloween themed bulletin board.

A fun Eric Carle inspired art project-especially good for last minute prep and set up. All you need is the print outs of the animal silhouettes, liquid glue and tissue paper to get started! The animals included in the project are: -Horse -Gorilla -Ostrich -Moose -Bear -Giraffe -Elephant Directions are included on page 2 after download. :)

Ten place value mystery pictures with clues to color in the 120's chart. These pictures are for second term holidays and events, from January to June. These place value puzzles are perfect for First Grade students, especially for a fun supplementary math activity, or for emergency sub plans! The 10 Holidays/pictures are: 1) MLK Day: MLK 2) Chinese New Year: Chinese Lantern 3) Groundhog Day: Groundhog 4) Valentines Day: Hearts 5) St. Patricks Day: Pot of Gold 6) Spring Break: Flowers 7) A

Skip counting worksheets for skip counting from any multiple by 2, 4, 5 and 10. There is also a bonus page for skip counting by multiples of 10 from any given number, forward or backward. Each multiple has 4 worksheets that vary in style and skip counting sequences. Great for math centers, small groups, or skip counting practice!

Glacier National Park inspired flip calendar: -Two color palettes with Month, Day, Date, Year (All the way to 2032) -Editable Month templates with 12 different pictures taken at Glacier -Black Month template

Crayon themed gift tags with 2 different sayings, and 1 editable version. Pair with a box of crayons for the beginning or end of the school year, or pair with a cute crayon eraser from the Target dollar spot!

20 Positive statements for your students to recite at an affirmation station in your classroom. Set up around a mirror, or get creative with how you can place these statements around your classroom for students to recite the positive phrases. There are 3 different backgrounds/color schemes: -Moody grey/blue -Pastels -White There is also an editable version of the moody grey/blue cards if you would like to add more phrases to your station!

Featuring differentiated fluency passages on amazing women in history! Each notable women has a fluency passage with three leveled readers (A=approaching, O=On grade level and B=Beyond), a comprehension question response page, and 2 different types of graphic organizers. Craftivities will be available for some women! This sample includes the passages, response page and graphic organizers for Audrey Hepburn! These passages go AMAZING with the wonderful picture book "Just Being Audrey" written b

Flip-able First Grade Common Core State Standard Signs, including the Next Generation Science Standards, and the Oregon Department of Education Social Sciences Standards. There are 4 different PDF documents in this zip file, with 4 different background colors (different color for each category of Math, ELA, Science, and Social Sciences). There are different watercolor images on various signs. A standards Matrix is included in this download, so that you can reference the verbatim language of th